Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Volume 10

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Back Cover of Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Volume 10
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Publication Date: February 28, 2007
Retire Date: June 30, 2008
Pages: 376
Format: Softcover

SCRIPTS

  • Rumors, Bargains and Lies
  • Moments of Transition
  • No Surrender, No Retreat
  • The Exercise of Vital Powers
  • The Face of the Enemy
  • Intersections in Real Time (A Passing Shadow)
  • Between the Darkness and the Light

Hot on the heels of the first screening at the February 2007 New York Comic Con of the director's video blogs for Babylon 5: The Lost Tales comes Volume 10, which might as well be called Babylon 5: The Lost Arc.

Read in more detail than ever announced what steps were taken to truncate the 5 year arc into 4 years at the request of Warner Bros...and the previously unknown back-room maneuvering underway to try and save that last important year.

Discover a lengthy memo to TNT for an ALTERNATE VERSION OF SEASON FIVE, with a whole new overarching story that would have been keyed to building the empire that was now the Interstellar Alliance.

Most startling of all, this volume contains a recently uncovered FULL LENGTH TREATMENT for the B5 sequel series JMS had proposed before Crusade, that was his first choice over what eventually became Crusade, a series that would have starred Sheridan, Delenn, G'Kar, Marcus, one of the Zathrii, and several others in a story set against the backdrop of the Alliance attempting to create interstellar peace.

And on the back cover, the full-color illustration done by artist Peter Ledger that showed, for the first time ever, what the interior of the Garden area of Babylon 5 would look like.

As if all that were not enough, add 56 pages of original introduction and commentary written just for this volume, AND the full, original production drafts for some of the most pivotal and fan-favorite episodes of Season Four.

(What's that you ask? What the heck is "A Passing Shadow" and how did this script transmute itself into "Intersections in Real Time" by way of one of the most amazing coincidences in television history? Get Volume 10 and find out.)

Index

Abu Ghraib – page 30

Adams, Scott – page 24

Alexander, Lyta – pages 23-24

Allan, Zack – pages 11, 23

Apocalypse Now – page 35

Arthur (King of the Britons) – page 6

Beaulieu, Trace – page 24

Bester, Alfred (Babylon 5 character) – pages 23-24, 46

"Between the Darkness and the Light" – pages 49-51, Commentary (pages 53-56)

Boxleitner, Bruce – page 55

Camelot – page 7

Casablanca (film) – page 7

CGI (computer-generated imagery) – pages 31, 35-36

Cole, Marcus – page 10

Copeland, John – pages 5, 26

Crusade (TV series) – pages 6-8, 10

Day at the Races, A (film) – pages 2-3

Delenn – pages 9, 16-17, 22-23

Dilbert (comic) – page 24

Drakh – pages 9, 11

Earth Civil War – pages 26-27, 31-32, 46

Earth-Minbari War – page 46

Edgars, William – pages 10, 21, 37-38

Edgars-Garibaldi, Lise – page 10

editing – page 55

"Exercise of Vital Powers, The" – Commentary (pages 35-41)

"Face of the Enemy, The" – Commentary (pages 43-46)

Fashion Week – page 18

Forrester, Clayton (MST3K character) – page 24

Franklin, Stephen – pages 8, 11, 45

Furlan, Mira – pages 16-17

G'Kar – pages 11, 31-33

Gaiman, Neil – pages 18-19

Garibaldi, Michael – pages 10-11, 23, 35, 48, 54

Gordon, Byron – page 10

Grey Council – page 17

"Intersections in Real Time" – page 46, Commentary (pages 47-51)

Interstellar Alliance – pages 5-6, 8-11

Ivanova, Susan – pages 8, 10-11, 27, 53-56

Jesus – page 35

Judas – page 35

Jurasik, Peter – page 33

Koenig, Walter – pages 24, 46

Lawrence of Arabia (film) – page 2

"Lines of Excellence" (Murder, She Wrote episode) – page 40

Los Angeles, CA – page 24

Lost Tales, The (Babylon 5) – page 55

Lynch, Liam – pages 24-25

Mars – page 36

Mars Resistance – page 48

Martin, Steve – page 18

Marvel Comics – page 18

Marx, Chico – page 3

Marx, Groucho – page 3

Marx Bros. – page 2

Merlin – page 8

MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) – page 2

Michelangelo – page 15

Minbar (planet) – page 16

Minbari Civil War – page 27

Mollari, Londo – pages 11, 19, 31-33

"Moments of Transition" – Commentary (pages 21-27)

Monahan, Marjorie – page 45

Mordred – page 10

MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000, TV series) – page 24

MTV (Music Television) – page 24

Murder, She Wrote (TV series) – page 40

Narn fighters – page 25

Nazis – page 30

Neroon – page 23

Netter, Douglas – pages 2-5

New York City – page 18

"No Surrender, No Retreat" – Commentary (pages 29-33)

Number One – pages 45-46

Olly (Sifl 'n Olly) – page 24

open casting – page 45

"Passing Shadow, A" – pages 47-51

Prime Directive (Star Trek) – page 6

Prisoner, The (TV series) – pages 47, 53

Rangers – pages 6, 10

Rangers (Babylon 5) (unproduced pilot) – pages 5-6

Rebo and Zooty – pages 17-19

Religious Caste – page 17

"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" – Commentary (pages 15-19)

Sardi's Restaurant – page 18

Season Five (alternate) – pages 8-12

Sheen, Martin – page 35

Sheridan, David (John and Delenn's son) – pages 9-10

Sheridan, John – pages 8-9, 11, 16-17, 19, 26-27, 30-32, 35, 39, 55

Sifl 'n Olly – pages 24-25

techno-mage – page 8

TNT (Turner Network Television) – pages 1-4

"Tootsie Frootsie Ice-a Cream" – page 3

TV Guide – page 24

TV movies – pages 1-2

Vejar, Mike – pages 43-45

Vietnam War – page 22

virtual set – page 25

Wade, Mr. – pages 37-38

Warlock-class destroyer – page 8

Warner Bros. – pages 1, 3-5, 53

Warrior Caste – page 17

Worker Caste – page 17

World War Two (WWII) – page 30

Yugoslavia – pages 16-17

Zimbalist, Efrem, Jr. – pages 21, 38-39

Zooty, Rebo and – pages 17-19

"Zooty-zoot-zoot" – page 18